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Sun
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n. Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name was originally an
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acronym, Stanford University Network. Sun started out around 1980 with some
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hardware hackers (mainly) from Stanford talking to some software hackers
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(mainly) from UC Berkeley; Sun's original technology concept married a
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clever board design based on the Motorola 68000 to BSD Unix. Sun went on to
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lead the workstation industry through the 1980s, and for years afterwards
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remained an engineering-driven company and a good place for hackers to work.
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Though Sun drifted away from its techie origins after 1990 and has since
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made some strategic moves that disappointed and annoyed many hackers
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(especially by maintaining proprietary control of Java and rejecting Linux),
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it's still considered within the family in much the same way DEC was in the
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1970s and early 1980s.
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